Foster Wheeler AG has announced that its UK-headquartered subsidiary Foster Wheeler Energy Ltd, part of its Global Engineering and Construction Group, has been awarded a contract by the South Oil Co. for the basic engineering of new oil export facilities, to supplement the existing Al-Basra terminal in Iraq. The new offshore facilities will include new single point mooring tanker loading buoys, together with oil pumping, metering and pipelines, to achieve an export capacity of 4.5 million barrels per day. Foster Wheeler will prepare a technical definition package, plans and schedules for full project implementation, and invitation to bid documents for the supply and construction of the offshore export facilities.
